republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1727.md

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Bill	Establishment of parent and child relationship; persons who committed sexual assault.	Establishment of parent and child relationship; persons who have committed sexual assault. Provides that no parent and child relationship shall be established when a biological parent has been convicted of rape, carnal knowledge, or incest, or has been found by clear and convincing evidence to have engaged in such prohibited conduct, and the child was conceived of such violation or conduct. The bill further provides that a person with a legitimate interest in the child does not include a person whose interest derives from or through a person who has been convicted of or found to have engaged in such conduct by clear and convincing evidence. The bill provides that consent for adoption is not required of a birth father when such father has been found by clear and convincing evidence to have engaged in rape, carnal knowledge, or incest and the child was conceived of such conduct; under current law, such consent is not required when the birth father has been convicted of rape, carnal knowledge, or incest.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1727	Virginia HB 1727 (2025)	bill		enacted	Karrie K. Delaney	4	32	6	2025-01-04	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/72d085dc-61be-46ac-9664-79aa939e8bc8	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1727	dcc50f7773b2aa0e88a891af94a5c99295054668dbbd39ee954d703f549fbb2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1727 (2025) — Establishment of parent and child relationship; persons who committed sexual assault.

Establishment of parent and child relationship; persons who have committed sexual assault. Provides that no parent and child relationship shall be established when a biological parent has been convicted of rape, carnal knowledge, or incest, or has been found by clear and convincing evidence to have engaged in such prohibited conduct, and the child was conceived of such violation or conduct. The bill further provides that a person with a legitimate interest in the child does not include a person whose interest derives from or through a person who has been convicted of or found to have engaged in such conduct by clear and convincing evidence. The bill provides that consent for adoption is not required of a birth father when such father has been found by clear and convincing evidence to have engaged in rape, carnal knowledge, or incest and the child was conceived of such conduct; under current law, such consent is not required when the birth father has been convicted of rape, carnal knowledge, or incest.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Senator Deeds, R. Creigh Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N 1-A) — 12–2 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (66-Y 30-N) — 66–30 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101829D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-10 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
• 2025-01-24 Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-29 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Read third time and passed House (66-Y 30-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-18 Floor substitute printed 25107576D-S1 (Deeds)
• 2025-02-18 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-19 Senator Deeds, R. Creigh Substitute rejected
• 2025-02-19 Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1727ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1727)
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 547 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/72d085dc-61be-46ac-9664-79aa939e8bc8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).